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Crisis. >> patients were prescribed opioids. >> we knew that there was a danger. we knew they weren't as effective. it still happened anyway. >> marketing. >> we started questioning whether we should be using opioids but we didn't have a lot of good alternatives at the time. >> dr. mark wallis started using cannabis to try to help patients not only treat their pain but get them off of opioids. there's no alternative back then. this is the big alternative for now. >> do you say the cannabis is better than opioids? >> it is definitely safer. you have someone dying from a drug overdoes. no docume...

Abuse. why is that and you being the person from the health care industry, what can you suggest to change that as well as improve the health care for all of the people in the common wealth of pennsylvania? >> yeah, thanks kelly for that question. first of all, it's not an opioid ep dimmic, it's a drug overdoes, it's fentanil and affecting folks very differently. our governor is treating this solely as clinical issue. clinical issue, part of it is overprescription. we don't have an integrated database and they started to address this. it's also a big social issue. our people here are suffering ...